Garment-supporter.



No. 707,070. Patented Aug. l9, I902.

B. L. BARGAR. GARMENT SUPPDRTE R.

(Application filed Jan. 27, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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ATTORNEY.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

BYRON L. BARGAR, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

GARMENT -S UPPORTER.

srncrrroacrton forming part of Letters Yatent No. 707,070, dated August 19, 1902. Application filed January 27, 1902. Serial No. 91,300. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, BYRON L. BARGAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Garment-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment-supporters; and the objects of my invention are to provide an improved construction of garmentsupport particularly adapted for supporting drawers from the trousers-band, to so construct and arrange the parts of my improved supporter as to admit of a desirable engagement with the underdrawers and an effective coupling of the same with the trousers-band by a comparative simple operation, and to produce other improvements the details of which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an outer side view in elevation of my improved supporter. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is asectional view on line at m of Fig. 1, and Fig. l is a similar sectional View on line y y of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a clip or yoke like supporter-body 1, consisting of a metallic strip doubled near the center of its length, as shown. The forward arm or member of the clip-body thus produced has formed therein a vertical elongated slot 2, which is intersected by a transverse bar 3.

4; represents a clamping or coupling lever, this lever being in the nature of a bar, the head or inner end portion of which is provided on opposite edges with projecting parallel wings or flanges 5, the upper and lower ends of these wings or flanges being preferably inclined, as shown. Formed in the wings 5 and adjoining the body of the lever are oppositely-located openings 6, from which lead in the direction of the length of the lever comparatively narrow recesses 6. These opening offsets or recesses 6 correspond approximately in form with the bar 3 of the body 1 and are adapted, as indicated more clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings, to receive said bar when the lever is in the downturned or locked position shown in the drawings. The openings 6, however, are of such sizes as to permit of the turning upward and downward of the lever 4 when the bar 3 is Within said openings. Projecting from the lever 4 adjacent to the lower end portion of each of the,wings 5 are upturned hooks 7.

In utilizing my improved supporter it will be understood that the clip or yoke like body 1 is slipped over or made to embrace both the trousers and drawers bands. Before the be ginning of the clamping operation the lever 4 is turned outward and upward, and when the bands of the garments have been properly embraced betweentherearorinnermemberofthe body 1 and the inclined upper ends of theleverwings 5 said lever is turned downward to the position indicated in the drawings, the bar 3 being permitted to enter the recesses 6 at the completion of the downward movement of the lever. In this manner it will be seen that not only will a pressure be exerted by the rear or inner edges of the wings 5 on the goods, but that both the drawers and trousers bands will be engaged by the hooks 7. Owing to the engagement of the bar 3 with the wingrecesses 6 of the lever, it will be seen that a voluntary outward or upward, and therefore disengaging, movement of the lever will be prevented. It will be observed that the low or supporting points of the hooks 7 are approximately in vertical alinement with the pivot of the lever, thus insuring a direct downward pull of the lever on said bar, thereby aiding in looking the lever-hooks in engagement with the goods.

When it is desired to disengage the lever from the goods forming the trousers and drawers bands, it will be understood that the first operation will consist in raising said lever until the bar 3 is in the larger portion of the opening 6 and that this operation will be followed by turning the lever upward on said bar until the hooks are disengaged from the goods and the pressure on the goods of the wings 5 is released. From this construction and operation it will be seen that a simple, convenient, and otherwise desirable form of garment-support is provided which will insure the retention of the undergarment in proper connection with the trousers-band.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters I ward member and a bar intersect-ingsaid slot,

Patent, is-

1. In a garment-support, the combination with the clip-body 1 having a slot in its for Ward member and a bar intersecting said member, of a lever having an enlarged head provided with substantially keyhole-shaped openings adapted to receive said bar as described and hooks projecting from said leverhead, substantially as specified.

2. In a garment-support, the combination with a clip-body 1 having a slot in its forof a lever 4 having its head portion provided with inwardly-projecting side flanges or wings 5, the latterhaving oppositely-located substantially keyhole-shaped openings therein to receive said bar and hooks projecting inwardly from the base of said lever-head, substantially as specified.-

BYRON L. BARGAR. In presence of- 0. O. SHEPHERD, W. L. MORROW. 

